Despite the football playoffs, NHL-related searches are outpacing NFL searches in January by a margin of 3:1.PEI, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are leading January searches for ‘hockey’ - all provinces without an NHL team.And with the help of the Google Maps API, Metro News assembled a quick snapshot of interesting Trend Tidbits from across the country.

View Metro's Canadian Google Trends - January, 2013 in a larger mapPosted by Aaron Brindle, Google CanadaFrom hockey to Honey Boo Boo, Metro News has a great feature today looking back at Canada's Google Search Trends in January.Canada's Top 10 Trending Searches for January:1. Idle No More2. Jodie Foster3. Lance Armstrong4. NHL5. Weight Watchers6. Job Bank7. NFL8. Kim Kardashian9. Canucks10. SunwingIdle No MoreSearches for this protest movement peaked in mid-January, however it remains 2013’s fastest rising search term in Canada. Regionally, Canada's prairie provinces show the highest search volume, with Manitoba - where the Idle No More protests originated - taking the lead.The return of the NHL!After a long hockey-less fall where NFL searches outpaced NHL-related searches for the first time since we started collecting data, professional hockey is once-again surging on Google as regular (albeit shortened) season got underway. Despite the football playoffs, NHL-related searches are outpacing NFL searches in January by a margin of 3:1.PEI, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia are leading January searches for ‘hockey’ - all provinces without an NHL team.And with the help of the Google Maps API, Metro News assembled a quick snapshot of interesting Trend Tidbits from across the country.